Laidback Budds has small, basic dorms and private rooms, but there's a sociable bar and pool, all just a short hop from calm Budds Beach. There are four-bed female-only dorms, too.
Budds in Surfers
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre
22.87 MILES
This exceptional gallery overlooking the river is an architectural delight and home to some of Australia’s finest works. An extension devoted to acclaimed…
10.36 MILES
This nicely restrained, old-style operation includes Australia’s biggest rainforest aviary, where you can hand-feed a technicolour blur of rainbow…
13.91 MILES
The headland of Point Danger marks the border between Queensland and New South Wales. There are amazing views from here both ways along the coast, and you…
16.46 MILES
Just off Springbrook Rd, the feathery Purling Brook Falls drops a rather astonishing 106m into the rainforest: worth braving the vertigo-inducing lookout.
29.18 MILES
Surrounds Wollumbin/Mt Warning (1156m), the most dramatic feature of the hinterland, towering over the valley. Its Aboriginal name, Wollumbin, means …
16.81 MILES
Queensland’s oldest national park comprises 13 sections stretching across an 8km plateau. Pick up a map at the information centre in North Tamborine for…
Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre
15.83 MILES
This small cultural centre set in a grove of old gum trees on the Tweed River provides an interesting insight into the traditional owners of the land, the…
7.04 MILES
Burleigh Head is known to the local Kombumerri clan of the Yugambeh people as Jellurgal, who trace its formation to a creation spirit called Jabreen. As…
Nearby attractions
0.21 MILES
Budds Beach is the narrow, riverside beach on Surfers Paradise's Nerang River. It's great for kids and beginner stand-up paddleboarders.
0.28 MILES
Lose the kids for an hour (literally) in this walk-through maze, cunningly disguised with elaborate audiovisual displays.
3. Surfers Paradise Beachfront Markets
0.54 MILES
The beachfront plays host to many stalls selling the usual array of fashion, accessories and artworks, plus photographs and homewares.
0.77 MILES
For an eagle-eye view of the coast and hinterland, zip up to this 230m-high observation deck near the top of Q1; at 322m, it's the world's tallest…
1.42 MILES
The lovely but somewhat shabby Spanish Mission–style Pavilion (1934) is a remnant from pre-boom days. Inside there's a cafe, toilets and changing rooms,…
1.68 MILES
Hugging the water's edge on the Southport side of the Broadwater estuary, this large park features free barbecues, beach volleyball, a swimming pontoon,…
3.15 MILES
A contemporary art space in a small back-street converted warehouse, 19 Karen has group shows and exhibits emerging local talent and international artists…
4.76 MILES
A hawker-style street market in a previously abandoned warehouse strewn with fairy lights, this lively space has food, fashion, art and live music. Work…